No Virginia, There Is No GOP Santa

Jolly Ol' St. Nick won't deliver the needed signatures for most of the GOP Clown Car cavalcade to meet Virginia's strict requirements for getting on the primary ballot, and as BooMan explains, it shows a great deal about how completely inept and unprepared the current crop of morons are.

[Friday] was the last day that you could submit signatures to appear on the ballot in the Virginia primaries. It's not an easy process. You need to collect 10,000 valid signatures, including at least 400 from each of Virginia's eleven congressional districts. Rick Perry tried, but failed, to get 10,000. Newt Gingrich submitted over 11,000, but must now pray that enough of them are from actual voters to get him over the hump. Ron Paul and Mitt Romney had no trouble and were certified. Jon Huntsman, Michele Bachmann, Rick Santorum, and whoever else is pretending to run for president, didn't even submit any signatures. In other words, in one of the swingiest of swing-states, we could see a ballot featuring only Romney and Paul. In any case, it will have no more than three candidates to choose from. 

Precisely zero of the also-rans could be half-assed to compete in Virginia. How can you expect them to handle complex foreign policy in the real world if they can't handle this?  Bottom line, the President has to GOVERN, unlike Congress.  Romney seems to at least be aware of what than entails, and Paul has a strong ground game, but the rest, including actual current sitting Texas Gov. Perry, can't be arsed enough to care.

We have a crazy electoral system. But you have to be able to master it to have any hope of mastering the federal government. Consider the fact that the Clintons screwed up their campaign by not understanding how delegates were allocated until it was too late. And they ran the government for eight years and basically created the process set up by their DNC. It's not a simple thing to run a presidential campaign. It takes a lot of brain power. You've got Rick Perry failing to qualify for the ballot in Virginia and Mitt Romney operating with one office and three staffers in all of South Carolina. These people are amateurs, and they've going to get their heads handed to them. 

When the Obama For America juggernaut gets rolling in 2012, it will crush these idiots.  They will have nobody to blame but themselves.  And believe me when I say OFA is getting ready well ahead of time in all 50 states.